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[en!fic] She Ra – Glimmer & Catra – PG | Get to know your enemy
Title: Get to know your enemy
Author:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
malurette
Fandom: Shera (reboot)
Characters: Glimmer, Catra
Rating: PG / K+
Disclaimer: Stevenson's
Prompt: "roleplay" for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
ladiesbingo
s2e4 roll with it + call forward to s5
Word count: ~700
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Planning an efficient attack on a big sturdy Horde defense fortress was supposed to be a very serious affair. Adora felt they had to strategize that attack to perfection, to leave nothing to hazard, and somehow to do everything by themselves—that is, the Best Friends Squad, when, uh they gathered more Princesses, sitting just right outside this HQ tent, taking turns at surveying the big Horde fortress… because they acknowledge they need the help? even if it’s led to loss… Yeah. Better not to dwell on the Entrapta fiasco right now. Not helping.
Hence, the need for perfect planning before attacking. No time for being reckless. No time for leaving another princess behind.
Adora was adamant they had to understand their enemy’s thinking to better counter it and this is where having someone with dirst-hand Horde experience was a plus. Listed here in a tidy bullet-point sheet. Complimentary map of the fortress and its surrounding. It was very serious and Bow even made them realistic figures to help visualize the strategy. Cute, smiling little figures. That somehow defused the seriousness.
Getting to explore the thought of possibilities without putting themselves into actual danger, was… actually, unexpected fun.
Yes, they’re fighting a war. Yes, they fighting against bad odds. Yes, the stakes are frighteningly high. When they go out and actually fight, real lives will be at risk. And they should win! They’re good, their powers are great, their minds are sharp, they should win, they have to win!
So just for now, they’re laying out all the ways they are going to win. To be the best. To make a difference.
Adora keeps shooting them down, reminding them of every way things… could go wrong. Forcing them to find new, more creative theoritical uses of their powers and. It’s never good enough. It should be infuriating.
But then again, spinning that attack in every way possible is fun. Putting yourself in a villain’s shoes even if it’s to better counteract her and not, just, you know, fantasize you’re better than her but finding ways of proving it; giving free way to, say, unsavoury parts of you, ones usually well-hidden behind the façade of a well-behaved princess… a proper princess doesn’t commit war crimes, even to protect her people. Villains do. Sure they want to win this war and use any means possible to do so to make Etheria a safer place for everyone but you shouldn’t become worse than the villains you’re fighting and ousting. Right. Anyway.
Fighting the Horde. One thing at a time. Taking this one fortress down first.
Mermista and Frosta and Perfuma butting in, giving input, helping Adora overcome her anxiety. Having their own fun. Glimmer still thinks her vision of Catra is the most accurate.
(In the end, they improvise.)
(In the end, they have to improvise a lot of things.)
No amount of either planning nor fantasizing would ever prepare Glimmer for the wilder reality of actually meeting Catra again, the real Catra, what seems a lifetime, several lifetimes later. She’s a prisoner again, her world’s been upturned in more than one way. And Catra, Catra too is hurt under her hard façade. She’s done so many awful things and the wildest she does now is… offering her cake. Seriously. A cake. A peace offering. Like she’s not going to die tomorrow and lose the war and.
Like she’s actually trying to be kind to her and not just messing with her head. Catra. Catra shows herself to be human. Glimmer’s always known that Catra’s flawed, very flawed, and here’s she’s trying to do better. Like she’s flawed not in a Oh I Love Being A Bad Girl I’m Evil On Purpose Sexy Femme Fatale, just… human flawed. (Cat-person flawed?)
Glimmer’s mind running wild. Has Catra tried her hand at roleplying being good and nice? Do Horde soldiers play pretend badly at being Princesses in their own skewed ways? (Yes. They do. She’ll learn that later.) But this. This is no play. It’s real. It’s worse.
Or.
It’s their chance. If Catra wants to reform then maybe
maybe
...she can’t affortd to finish this thought.
Author:
maluretteFandom: Shera (reboot)
Characters: Glimmer, Catra
Rating: PG / K+
Disclaimer: Stevenson's
Prompt: "roleplay" for
ladiesbingos2e4 roll with it + call forward to s5
Word count: ~700
Planning an efficient attack on a big sturdy Horde defense fortress was supposed to be a very serious affair. Adora felt they had to strategize that attack to perfection, to leave nothing to hazard, and somehow to do everything by themselves—that is, the Best Friends Squad, when, uh they gathered more Princesses, sitting just right outside this HQ tent, taking turns at surveying the big Horde fortress… because they acknowledge they need the help? even if it’s led to loss… Yeah. Better not to dwell on the Entrapta fiasco right now. Not helping.
Hence, the need for perfect planning before attacking. No time for being reckless. No time for leaving another princess behind.
Adora was adamant they had to understand their enemy’s thinking to better counter it and this is where having someone with dirst-hand Horde experience was a plus. Listed here in a tidy bullet-point sheet. Complimentary map of the fortress and its surrounding. It was very serious and Bow even made them realistic figures to help visualize the strategy. Cute, smiling little figures. That somehow defused the seriousness.
Getting to explore the thought of possibilities without putting themselves into actual danger, was… actually, unexpected fun.
Yes, they’re fighting a war. Yes, they fighting against bad odds. Yes, the stakes are frighteningly high. When they go out and actually fight, real lives will be at risk. And they should win! They’re good, their powers are great, their minds are sharp, they should win, they have to win!
So just for now, they’re laying out all the ways they are going to win. To be the best. To make a difference.
Adora keeps shooting them down, reminding them of every way things… could go wrong. Forcing them to find new, more creative theoritical uses of their powers and. It’s never good enough. It should be infuriating.
But then again, spinning that attack in every way possible is fun. Putting yourself in a villain’s shoes even if it’s to better counteract her and not, just, you know, fantasize you’re better than her but finding ways of proving it; giving free way to, say, unsavoury parts of you, ones usually well-hidden behind the façade of a well-behaved princess… a proper princess doesn’t commit war crimes, even to protect her people. Villains do. Sure they want to win this war and use any means possible to do so to make Etheria a safer place for everyone but you shouldn’t become worse than the villains you’re fighting and ousting. Right. Anyway.
Fighting the Horde. One thing at a time. Taking this one fortress down first.
Mermista and Frosta and Perfuma butting in, giving input, helping Adora overcome her anxiety. Having their own fun. Glimmer still thinks her vision of Catra is the most accurate.
(In the end, they improvise.)
(In the end, they have to improvise a lot of things.)
No amount of either planning nor fantasizing would ever prepare Glimmer for the wilder reality of actually meeting Catra again, the real Catra, what seems a lifetime, several lifetimes later. She’s a prisoner again, her world’s been upturned in more than one way. And Catra, Catra too is hurt under her hard façade. She’s done so many awful things and the wildest she does now is… offering her cake. Seriously. A cake. A peace offering. Like she’s not going to die tomorrow and lose the war and.
Like she’s actually trying to be kind to her and not just messing with her head. Catra. Catra shows herself to be human. Glimmer’s always known that Catra’s flawed, very flawed, and here’s she’s trying to do better. Like she’s flawed not in a Oh I Love Being A Bad Girl I’m Evil On Purpose Sexy Femme Fatale, just… human flawed. (Cat-person flawed?)
Glimmer’s mind running wild. Has Catra tried her hand at roleplying being good and nice? Do Horde soldiers play pretend badly at being Princesses in their own skewed ways? (Yes. They do. She’ll learn that later.) But this. This is no play. It’s real. It’s worse.
Or.
It’s their chance. If Catra wants to reform then maybe
maybe
...she can’t affortd to finish this thought.